The first trailer has been released online for Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey.

Starring Matt Damon as the classic Greek hero, the trailer offers a series of shots of a bearded Damon as he sets out to return from the fall of Troy as his gravelly voiceover announces: “After years of war … no one could stand between my men … and home … not even me.”

The trailer also provides brief glimpses of Anne Hathaway as Odysseus’s wife Penelope and of Tom Holland as his son Telemachus, as Odysseus battles storms and other obstacles on his way back to Ithaca.

The trailer arrives shortly after a six-minute sequence was released in cinemas on 12 December; before that, a cinema trailer had been debuted in July, but was leaked online. The newly released trailer appears to be considerably different, and follows Nolan’s revelation that he used 2 million ft of film on Imax cameras in making the movie. The Odyssey is due for release on 16 July 2026 in Australia and on 17 July in the UK and the US.